How popular was fascism in the interwar period? Specifically, before Hitler ruined its reputation. I heard a rumor that FDR praised Mussolini's project before WW2.
>>18458232Hitler mind controlled Mussolini to ally with him in WW2?
>>18458233What?
>>18458233Fascism was the hip, cool, "in" thing that cool kids were doing.Most labor movements based their flags on the motif of black eagle on white background circle over red. The opposition to fascism was more about technical arguments over keynesianism or democratic process and not actual opposition.Charles Lindberg and Gandhi were major celebrities and supported fascism. Literally no nation opposed fascism until the abbysinian war started, and not as an ideology just as politics. When Spanish civil war happened the Republic was a passive inert force and not any active opposition. There actually wasn't ever anyone who really opposed fascism because people only opposed it today because it lost.
>>18458232Mussolini also hated Slavs and Jews. There wasn't actually that much difference between him and Hitler
>>18458233It was a tactical alliance, countries ally with countries they disagree with ideologically all the time. Mussolini was pretty open about disagreeing with Hitlers racial laws and implemented them with Italy purely out of political necessity, and they were not as strictly enforced as they were in Germany, much to the annoyance of the Nazis.
>>18458247Mussolini's private correspondences show his antisemitism was genuine
>>18458247>It was a tactical allianceA tactical alliance to divide up Europe together. Because they had the same ideology of expansionist military imperialism
>>18458250Sure, but not to the same degree as Hitler, antisemitism was not unusual during that time, so Mussolini harboring antisemitic sentiments would not be unique to him. Mussolini was an opportunist and a pragmatist to a fault.
>>18458246originally Italian fascism didn't care about jews or degenerate art, there is a famous quote by Mussolini saying race doesn't matter, its just a feeling.also Mussolini had a Jewish mistress
>>18458232Popular in authoritarian countries like Poland, Romania, Hungary, disliked in the western democracies >>18458246Musso didn't hate Jews. He considered Slavs (as, their culture, not genes) inferior and wanted to conquer Yugoslavia but then the plan was to make the Slavs into Italians and not to expel/murder them like Nazis wanted
Fascism was popular in Italy but you also have to present it in the context of the timesPrimarily>chaotic democratic proceeds leading to a failure of the traditional parties (both liberal and conservatives)>fear of radicals (communists) post rise of Soviet UnionIn this environment, people nowadays fail to understand that a large part of the appeal of fascism as an ideology was that it presented a “third way”. Between pure liberalism and capitalism, and communism and socialism.A large pitch for both Mussolini and Hitler was to essentially solve the class war, without destroying the elite class of wealthy landowners and industrialists. Arguably the reason a country like the UK failed to get a higher level of fascist support is they managed to have more of a release valve of political pressure and more reforms than the elites would have traditionally wanted. Same with France.
>>18458233>>18458246>>18458250>>18458268>>18458271>>18458282Mussolini was a Jew. His march on Rome was literally orchestrated with Jewish support and he had not one but TWO Jewish mistresses one being named (((Sarfatti)))
The march on Rome was literally a judeo-industrialist plot to overthrow the democratic and pro-Italian Italian government. Mussolini, like Hitler, hated white people and sent the to their death in WW2
>>18458232You had Italian fascist marches in Washington in the 1920s because it was seen as this efficient technocratic ideology of the future
>>18458288I think you're a Jew. What now?
>>18458348I’ve never fucked Jewish women, nor have I attempted a coup with Jewish backing. Try again tranny.
>>18458232The ‘so-called’ ‘interwar period’ …part of this all stems from wars started during the ‘so-called’ ‘interwar period’
>>18458288So what?
>>18458232fascism is the way
>>18458232that depends. by the late 1920s it was very popular. by the late 30s it was getting quite unpopular. by the early 40s extremely unpopular. mussolini struggled to keep a good popularity already by the time of the stresa front in 1935, people were fed up and realized he was just a pompous smoke vendor
